Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Guildford, Surrey

What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

Oxygen is an essential element to every cell in our body. With an increasingly polluted environment this vital ingredient is, as time passes and we age, becoming severely deficient in our bodies. There is no pill or supplement we can take to put the oxygen back into our cells, and at normal air pressure our red blood corpuscles (which transport the oxygen around the body) cannot increase their delivery rate. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy jump starts the healing energies, so is highly regenerative.

Through the use of a hyperbaric chamber we can place the body gently under pressure so that oxygen is dissolved into the fluids in our whole system, not just the circulatory system, thereby increasing our oxygen levels dramatically. This means a huge delivery of up to 25% more O2 to injured tissues, reducing swelling and inflammation and encouraging the formation of fresh blood vessels in injured tissues, even including the brain and eyes. The result is improved healing and resistance to infections, renewal of damaged neurons and speedy elimination of damaging toxins in order to promote regeneration, which means it is a very effective anti-ageing medicine. Hyperbaric oxygen is proven to stimulate fibroblasts and collagen activity, alleviating or preventing major diseases linked to the ageing process.

We use a safe level of pressure at 4psi, which has been proven to sometimes be even more effective than stronger pressures.

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy from Walking on Air Well Being in Guildford, Surrey. For more information please call 01483 454 000.

The benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen gives the body a powerful healing and rejuvenating boost whilst you simply lie back and relax. Its vast range of benefits include:

Anti-ageing to the entire body
No pills, needles or powders – just O2
Delivers regenerative oxygen to tissue cells up to 25 times normal levels
Supports the function of the immune system and improves resistance against infections
Upgrades and hastens the healing process of wounds, burns and infection
Helps the body to renew damaged neurons, including those of the eyes.
Promotes and encourages the elimination of toxins from various systems
Stimulates the production of stem cells
Decreases inflammation and swelling
Speeds up recovery from surgery thus improving outcome
Helps radiation necrosis (tissue death) after radiotherapy treatment, and eases discomfort associated with radiation burns (radiation dermatitis)
Oxygenates body where acute blood loss has taken place and transfusion is not possible
Increases regeneration of injured / broken bones & tissues
Speeds recovery from jet lag and similar deep fatigue symptoms
Energises the body and assists in relieving brain fog - particularly helpful in cases of ME, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue, early stages of dementia and post chemotherapy
Reduces healing time of ligament and soft tissue damage
Helps traumatic and ischemic brain injuries
Assists in the restoration of latent or penumbral areas of brain so may be helpful in the treatment of conditions such as Cerebral Palsy.
Proven to assist in the formation of new blood vessels leading to partial restoration of the brain following injury, ischemic attack or stroke
Encourages cardiovascular and respiratory recovery following heart attack
Decreases fatigue levels caused by chronic inadequacy of oxygen levels within cells and body tissues
Eases migraine, glaucoma and sudden hearing loss
Supports healing and calm body and mind following physical trauma or emotional shock
Enhances recovery from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning

For technical explanations of the services we offer, see the educational films on our associate’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thewellnesstreegroup
where you will discover the benefits of the highly advanced technology we have at Walking On Air Well Being to help you feel a positive about your health once again.

Increased energy leads to more brain stimulation, which leads to an increase in positive thoughts. Mental wellbeing and happiness helps us to heal more quickly.

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How does hyperbaric oxygen therapy work?

The human body is a massive devourer of oxygen. We rely on oxygen for life of course. Before oxygen, there was no life! Without oxygen we do not last many minutes before damage occurs, followed by fatality unless we take another breath. Humans consume roughly 6 lbs of oxygen per day. This gross consumption far outweighs any other nutrient demands made by the body.

The primary purpose of oxygen within the body is to generate energy. The fats and carbohydrates we consume only generate around 50% of the energy we need. In order to enable our bodies to make stored energy accessible for consumption, our cells have to convert this stored energy into ATP (the body’s recuperative energy currency) through its use of oxygen.

The chemistry law 'Henry's Law' states that fluid absorbs more gas under pressure. Therefore, in a hyperbaric chamber we greatly increase the partial pressure of oxygen, which encourages the vital gas to dissolve into the body’s plasma and other waterborne bodily fluids. Dissolved water and gases are able to cross the semi-permeable cell membrane walls through osmosis and diffusion.

Every cell in the body is bathed in fluid. The body is roughly 70% water, so we can use the hyperbaric chamber to deliver oxygen under pressure to every tissue in the body. This is so even to areas where the blood vessels are blocked, such as in the case of diabetes, trauma, or surgical intervention. Our bodies then convert the oxygen to healing and rejuvenating currency.

There is no need to get undressed for this therapy – you simply comfortably lie there and the body does the work!

“You get oxygenation, decreased swelling and decreased inflammation all in one treatment. If a drug did this a pharmaceutical company would make quite a bit of money.”

- Dr D. A. Rossignol MD and hyperbaric specialist/Medical Veritas 2006

Hyperbaric oxygen is a cumulative treatment, which means that you will need a number of sessions, all within a reasonable period of time. The regularity will be discussed in the light of your condition, but you do need to take at least 10 hours of oxygen before you begin to really feel the true benefit where a truly debilitating condition is concerned, because by 10 hours many new blood vessels will form in the oxygen deprived areas. We discuss your progress at every visit.

By 20 to 30 hours of oxygen saturation the restoration can become permanent. We generally suggest that you spend at least one hour in the oxygen tent per session, but longer sessions mean that you will experience the recovery more quickly and economically. For lesser issues, such as a pulled muscle, it may be that a much shorter treatment will suffice.

For hyperbaric treatment you do not need to remove anything but your shoes, although we do strongly recommend loose, comfortable casual attire. You can listen to music, talk on your mobile, use your iPad, read or just enjoy the chance to sleep in the tent, which means that you should be able to take a nice long session with ease. Our clients all comment on how they find the chamber deeply relaxing and associate it with positive progress.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Payment of consultation fees is due at the time of treatment. Receipts are supplied on request during the clinic visit, or a subsequent visit, but if it is necessary to post a receipt, there is a carriage charge.

Payment for services rendered and products provided is welcomed by cash or Debit Card. We prefer not to accept credit cards and cheques owing to the increased banking costs incurred by the their use.

Please make a note of our 24-hour cancellation policy. A last minute cancellation hurts 3 people; you, the therapist, and the person who could have had your time slot.

There are certain unavoidable clinical costs involved in preparing and providing our services to you, and it is very difficult to fill a cancelled appointment without sufficient warning. To cover those unavoidable costs, appointments cancelled without 24 hours notice and missed appointments will be charged a fee of 50%.

For reasons of safety, patients who come to have work on their nails must remove nail lacquer before attending the clinic. We regret that we must impose a charge of £2 if the therapist is forced to carry out this duty, and we cannot allow extra time over the treatment slot to compensate for the time spent removing lacquer.

Parents are asked to take responsibility for their children, and for reasons of safety to keep accompanying children seated at a safe distance in a seat designated by the therapist. Any damage or breakages incurred by unsupervised children will be charged at replacement or repair cost.